Legislative Council Electoral Boundaries Act 1995

For the purposes of this Act – an alternate member is to be appointed for each member of the – Redistribution Committee except the Electoral Commissioner; and Tasmanian Augmented Electoral Commission except those members who are members of the Electoral Commission; and appointments of alternate members are to be made – when the Committee and the Tasmanian Augmented Electoral Commission are first appointed under section 4; and if subsequently there is a vacancy in the office of a member or alternate member, on a request made to the Governor by the Committee or the Tasmanian Augmented Electoral Commission; and an alternate member must have the same qualifications as the member for whom he or she is an alternate or must be acting in, or performing the duties of, that member's office; and

An alternate member is to act as a member of the Redistribution Committee or the Tasmanian Augmented Electoral Commission only if the member for whom he or she is an alternate dies or only while that member– is absent from a meeting of the Committee or the Tasmanian Augmented Electoral Commission; or is incapable of acting as a member.

Where an alternate member acts as a member of the Redistribution Committee or the Tasmanian Augmented Electoral Commission– he or she may exercise all the powers of the member for whom he or she is an alternate member; and all things done or omitted to be done by the alternate member are as valid, and have the same consequences, as if they had been done or omitted to be done by the member for whom he or she is an alternate member.